Table of Contents

Introduction
The Material Context of the Bayeux Embroidery: Manufacture, Display, and Literary References
Is the Bayeux Embroidery a Record of Events?
Imagined Patronage
The Prosopography of the Bayeux Embroidery and the Community of St Augustine's, Canterbury
Locating Harold's Oath and Tracing His Itinerary
Bishop Odo at the Banquet
The Fables in the Borders
Representing Architecture
Legal Ceremonies and the Question of Legitimacy
The Fall of the English
Quid faciat . Scollandus? The Abbey Church of St Augustine's, c. 1073-1100
Conclusion
Select Bibliography

Reviews

[T]he most interesting, inventive, level-headed, and systematic reassessment of the Tapestry for a long time. It gets us much closer to solving many of the remaining mysteries concerning a source that is so familiar that we often fail to notice its persistent enigmas.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

I strongly recommend this book; any tapestry scholar will certainly want access to a copy.
*SPECULUM*

Pastan and White present powerful challenges to the old binaries of sacred or secular display and of Norman or English sympathies. . . . . The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts> gives scholars of the famous embroidery a lot to think about, and the next generation of Bayeux Tapestry scholarship will surely be richer for it.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*

Interesting and thought-provoking.
*FRANCIA*